Desenvolvimento e aplicação de jogos para o ensino de química: considerações sobre sua utilização em sala de aula no ensino médio

Abstract

This paper discusses the importance of the educational application of active methodologies such as the use of games, for the development of competences and skills necessary for learning chemistry. Based on our experience as a teacher in high school, some of the frequently observed learning problems were taken as guiding factors of this research, which cause important obstacles to the teaching process of many students: deficiency in the construction of meanings in relation to Chemical symbols and representations and their association with concrete things; as an action proposal, a brief case study was carried out with a class from the 1st year of high school, adequate to the mentioned problems, and applied questionnaires and a game, developed for a PROFQUI discipline, called “What is the element?”, which discusses the contents of the periodic table, chemical elements and substances. It was carried out a qualitative analysis of the activities performed from the questionnaires and observations of the students' behavior, participation and performance during the activities. From the analysis of the collected data, it can be inferred that the use of games, developed with the intention of promoting certain knowledge or behavior, demonstrates a great potential to motivate students' interest, creating a classroom environment prone to learning.